Keywords: High-wheel
Item 34598
A.L.T. Cummings and his bicycle, Biddeford, 1888
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1888 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 28727
The Old and the New, Saco, ca. 1900
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
